It’s a Wrap-up for 2016

2016 was again a busy year. I have been working on my regular day job, studying the Big Data world, researching, writing, speaking and teaching at the University of Helsinki.

My second book came out:

I spoke at several events (I hope I did not forget anything):

DOAG2016, Nuremberg, Germany

OTN APAC Tour:

Beijing, China

Sangam16, Bangalore/Bengaluru, India

POUG, Warsaw, Poland

Oracle Open World, San Francisco, USA

MiitIT, Helsinki, Finland

ODTUG KScope16, Chicago, USA

UKOUG Scotland, Glasgow

RoOUG, Romania

BGOUG, Bulgaria

AMIS 25 – Beyond the Horizon, Leiden, The Netherlands

APEX Connect 2016, Berlin, Germany

OUGF EXA-SIG, Helsinki, Finland

Collaborate, Las Vegas, USA

OUGN, Norway

GaOUG Tech Day 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

I attended my first academic events: a Big Data Workshop (http://udbms.cs.helsinki.fi/BigData2016/) and the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE (http://icde2016.fi/). I was also a volunteer worker in both events and I guess I made some kind of history by being a chair for one of the sessions at ICDE as a newcomer:-) I really enjoyed both the events!

I was helping to organize and co-chairing the EOUC Leaders’ meeting in Nuremberg:

I have been helping several user groups to judge the submitted Call for Papers and of course serving the EMEA user groups as their elected Ambassador. One of my duties during the year was to attend the EOUC Leaders’ meeting in Romania in June and give a speech to our long time Oracle liaison, Mary Lou Dopart. I want to thank her for all the years she has been working for user groups and I want to wish her all the best with her new duties: